Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Jan 2002 14:41:44 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Hardware Inventory [was: Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?] |
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On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Richard Gooch wrote: > > > It still eludes me why a new device FS was developed when devfs > > already has the mechanisms that are needed. > > For one, driverfs can be made mandatory. Sure we could do the same for > devfs, but there are probably an army of people who don't want > a mandatory devfs.
... for another, there's an old saying about doing one thing and doing it well. Devfs is _not_ following that.
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